May 18th 2010 11:12 pm
Opera 10.51 web browser deserves to sit on your start menu
Or your quick link, pinned on your taskbar or simply on your desktop. This alternative browser is fast. Loads web pages in seconds and rendering any graphically intensive pages without hiccups. In fact, its Carakan javascript engine performs remarkably well. Best seen and tested in http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/.
Fastest internet web browser opera 10.50
10 years back, during the days when 56K modem and icq dominated our daily net-life, Opera version 5&6 was my tool for interacting with web pages. It was only when incompatibility happens that I use Internet Explorer once in a while.
Blame it on Firefox, the reason i abandoned Opera back in 2004. The rest of the history was Firefox, Firefox 2.0, 2.5, 3.0 …. and till most recently Chrome. Google Chrome was nice. Initially it doesn’t impressed me much. The memory leak problem which plagued Firefox in all version is where I started to look for alternative. One very obvious advantage over Firefox is the look and feel, which is sleeker and the browser startup time was faster compared to Firefox.
Opera 10.50 released just recently is where I used it as an alternative browser to my main browser Chrome. Apart from the faster javascript performance. Opera 10.50 triumph over Google Chrome with some added functionalities like:
- Opera Unite, multipurpose server-like functionality available just on your browser.
- E-mail application
- Chat(IRC) application
- Torrent client
- better download manager with ability to resume download tasks which isn’t possible with Google Chrome.
- Mouse gesture
- Widgets
- Opera Turbo, great tool for slow connections. (Compress web pages up to 80%)
There are two complains about Opera 10.50 though; the compatibility issue and it wasn’t multithreaded. Compatibility issue becomes apparent when I access my favourite web messenger www.meebo.com. The javascript incompatibility causes the “window” inside the meebo chat application to behave erratically. As far as multithreaded is concern, Opera browser doesn’t have this, yet. But this shouldn’t be much of an issue for average users as Opera simply reopen the tabs once Opera crashed.
I do recommend Opera 10.50 (the latest is a minor update 10.53). Let go your Firefox, and please stay away from Internet Explorer. I am using Opera in conjunction with Chrome. Well, it was like sort of 40% Opera and 60% Chrome. Both are nice in their own aspect. Opera is more than a browser, it is an whole internet application suite.
Downloads and more info at http://www.opera.com/
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